The Constitution of Man in Relation to the Natural LawsCassell, 1803 - 236 pages |
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... improving the mental condition of the labouring classes 162 Province of legislative interference with human action Evils suffered by the middle and the higher ranks CHAPTER XIII . THE MORAL LAW AND NATIONAL PROSPERITY . Prosperity not ...
... improving the mental condition of the labouring classes 162 Province of legislative interference with human action Evils suffered by the middle and the higher ranks CHAPTER XIII . THE MORAL LAW AND NATIONAL PROSPERITY . Prosperity not ...
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... Improvement inaugurated by the Act for Parliamentary Reform The slave - trade and its effects Cruelty and injustice of the Spaniards in South America , and their punishment • The British conquest and government of India Sources of ...
... Improvement inaugurated by the Act for Parliamentary Reform The slave - trade and its effects Cruelty and injustice of the Spaniards in South America , and their punishment • The British conquest and government of India Sources of ...
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... improvement . This hypothesis ascribes to the power and wisdom of the Divine Being the whole pheno- mena which nature , animate and inanimate , exhibits ; be- cause , in conferring on each part the specific qualities and constitution ...
... improvement . This hypothesis ascribes to the power and wisdom of the Divine Being the whole pheno- mena which nature , animate and inanimate , exhibits ; be- cause , in conferring on each part the specific qualities and constitution ...
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... improvement are afforded to all the human faculties . The moral and intellectual laws also have an independent operation . From an attentive study of our constitution , it appears that the Divine Ruler has conferred on Man organs of ...
... improvement are afforded to all the human faculties . The moral and intellectual laws also have an independent operation . From an attentive study of our constitution , it appears that the Divine Ruler has conferred on Man organs of ...
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... improvement of the human mind . Whenever the dictates of the moral and intellectual faculties , thus combined and enlightened , oppose the solici- tations of the propensities , the latter must yield -- otherwise , by the constitution of ...
... improvement of the human mind . Whenever the dictates of the moral and intellectual faculties , thus combined and enlightened , oppose the solici- tations of the propensities , the latter must yield -- otherwise , by the constitution of ...
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according action activity adapted animal faculties animal propensities appears arranged ascer benevolence bestowed body brain Cassell's causes cloth condition conduct consequences constitution creation Creator death desire discover disease Divine duty effects enjoy enjoyment evil exercise existence external objects feelings GEORGE COMBE gilt gratification happiness harmony higher sentiments ignorance Illustrated improvement individual inflict infringement instance institutions intellectual faculties intellectual laws intelligent intuitive knowledge JULIAN HAWTHORNE knowledge labour laws of nature live lower animals mankind marriage ment mind misery moral and intellectual moral law moral sentiments nations natural laws natural philosophy neglect obedience obey observation offender offspring operation organic laws organised pain parents perceive persons philosophy Phrenology physical laws pleasure possess practical present principle propen punishment qualities race regard relations religion render ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON selfish ship society suffering supremacy T. P. O'CONNOR tion transmitted vessels of wrath views vigour Vols W. W. GREENER
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Page 15 - ... also rewards and punishes actions. If, for example, the pain which we feel, upon doing what tends to the destruction of our bodies, suppose upon too near approaches to fire, or upon wounding ourselves, be appointed by the Author of nature to prevent our doing what thus tends to our destruction, this is altogether as much an instance of his punishing our actions, and consequently of our being under his government, as declaring by a voice from heaven that if we acted so, he would inflict such pain...
Page 15 - Nature's acting upon us every moment which we feel it, or to his having at once contrived and executed his own part in the plan of the world, makes no alteration as to the matter before us.
Page 104 - They say nay in a word, but they do so in deed ; for to the one they will gladly give a stipend of two hundred crowns by the year, and loth to offer to the other two hundred shillings. God that sitteth in heaven laugheth their choice to scorn, and rewardeth their liberality as it should. For he suffereth...
Page 212 - Never, perhaps, was witnessed a finer scene than on the deck of my little ship, when all hope of life had left us. Noble as the character of the British sailor is always allowed to be in cases of danger, yet I did not believe it to be possible that amongst forty-one persons not one repining word should have been uttered.